Alabama center Bradley Bozeman started all 15 games last season, as did Jonah Williams, who flipped this spring from right tackle to left tackle to replace NFL draft pick Cam Robinson.
Ross Pierschbacher is a returning starter at left guard and likes what he’s seeing each day from the left side of the Crimson Tide’s offensive front.
“It’s been really clean and smooth, and it’s been fun to play with those guys,” Pierschbacher said this week in a news conference. “They really know what they’re doing. It’s kind of painless over there, and we go up against our defense every day, so we kind of know what’s coming.”
Pierschbacher, a 6-foot-4, 303-pound junior from Cedar Falls, Iowa, was a second-team All-Southeastern Conference selection last season and has started all 30 games the past two years for a program that has reeled off consecutive 14-1 records. He was a Freshman All-American in 2015, when the Crimson Tide won their fourth national championship under coach Nick Saban.
Alabama has been using a first-team front this month with Williams (6-5, 301), Pierschbacher, Bozeman (6-5, 314), right guard Lester Cotton (6-4, 324) and right tackle Matt Womack (6-7, 324). Cotton started three times at right guard last season, while Womack has yet to make a start.